HomeGuidesNYT Connections NYT Connections hint and answers (Thursday, December 14)Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #186 Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #186 Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/NYT Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/NYT This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out theConnections hint and answers for Thursday 26th December! Want a hint for Connections today?...

HomeDeals This 4TB TeamGroup NVMe SSD is yours for $151.99 after a $48 Newegg discountAn excellent price for a TLC drive with DRAM at this capacity. An excellent price for a TLC drive with DRAM at this capacity. Image credit:TeamGroup/Rock Paper Shotgun Image credit:TeamGroup/Rock Paper Shotgun TeamGroup makes some of the best value RAM and SSDs on the market, and today we’re looking at the latter - the MP34, a PCIe 3....

HomeFeatures How do you make video game loot feel satisfying, but not too much? We asked the creators of Path Of Exile"There’s honestly a billion little considerations." “There’s honestly a billion little considerations.” Image credit:Grinding Gear Games Image credit:Grinding Gear Games Image credit:Grinding Gear Games In games such as these, loot is the idealised commodity that promises the Earth but leaves you wanting more. It has to be at once desirable and disposable....

HomeNewsExodus How does time dilation set Exodus apart from Mass Effect? It “supersizes all of the choices that you make"Archetype hint at the narrative implications of relativistic effects Archetype hint at the narrative implications of relativistic effects Image credit:Wizards of the Coast Image credit:Wizards of the Coast As I wrote ina very reachy piece about Starfield’s universal and local clocks, way back in August, time dilation is a fascinating concept that poses all sorts of challenges for game designers, extending from questions of plotting to the practicalities of quests and resourcing....

HomeGuidesNYT Connections NYT Connections hint and answers (Wednesday, December 13)Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #185 Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #185 Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/NYT Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/NYT This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out theConnections hint and answers for Thursday 26th December! Want a hint for Connections today?...

HomeNews Please stop huffing your Steam Deck vent fumes, Valve plead, as players obsess over “new Deck smell”“We understand that it may be a meme, but please refrain from this behavior for the safety of your health” “We understand that it may be a meme, but please refrain from this behavior for the safety of your health” Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Valve have askedSteam Deckowners to stop inhaling the fumes from the Steam Deck’s air vent, after the portable PC’s uniquely moreish smell became an obsession among the community....

HomeFeaturesPrince Of Persia: The Lost Crown Prince Of Persia: The Lost Crown has a big, brewing frenemy battle on its hands, and it can’t come soon enoughBring back the old boss gauntlet, I say Bring back the old boss gauntlet, I say Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Ubisoft Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Ubisoft Back in May when I first played Ubisoft’s new Metroid-like Prince Of Persia game,The Lost Crown, ahead of itsrevealat this year’s Summer Game Fest, I got to sample several hours' worth of some of the early areas inside its cursed mountaintop citadel of Mount Qaf....

HomeFeaturesHi-Fi Rush The RPS Advent Calendar 2023, December 13thGuitar hero Guitar hero Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun What’s that I hear behind today’s Advent Calendar door? A sweet guitar riff and a sick drum beat that makes me want to snap my fingers forevermore? Man, I’m tapping my toes just thinking about it! Yep, it’s time to break out those rhythm sticks, folks, because here comesHi-Fi Rush!...

HomeNewsV.A Proxy V.A Proxy is a Nier Automata-like that’s on a mission to parry everything, and now it has a demoCancelled Cancelled Image credit:Pyrolith Image credit:Pyrolith A good parry mechanic is a kind of redemption. Where blocking - aka holding a button to avoid damage - is a concession to the tedious attritional undertow of manyaction games, parrying - aka pressing a button on cue to cancel damage and often, prep a counter - is the act of cutting through the bullshit....

HomeGuidesAvatar: Frontiers of Pandora All main quests in Avatar: Frontiers Of PandoraHere’s how long it takes to complete Avatar: Frontiers Of Pandora Here’s how long it takes to complete Avatar: Frontiers Of Pandora Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Ubisoft Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Ubisoft Wondering how many quests are in Avatar: Frontiers Of Pandora?Ubisoft’s open-world extravaganza in the alien world of Pandora offers a good chunk of quests to keep you busy. As you fight against the RDA (the human militant force on Pandora) and learn what it is to be a Na’vi, you’ll have access to a range of main quests that introduce three major Na’vi clans....

HomeNews E3 is officially dead, say ESAPlease wrap it up Please wrap it up The future of the event (aka: video game Christmas) had been in doubt for several years at this point. It went away during the Covid-19 pandemic, but struggled to return in either digital or physical form. RPS owners Reedpop then took on the task of organising the first in-person E3 since 2019, attempting to resurrect it in the summer of 2023, but ended up having tocancel itin March earlier this year....

HomeNewsFortnite Epic win lawsuit as court rules Google’s app store is an illegal monopolyNow Google needs a Project Hug Now Google needs a Project Hug Image credit:Epic Games Image credit:Epic Games Evidence offered during the trial showed that Google did not treat all developers selling through its app store equally, offering sweetheart deals to some. This included an inititative called “Project Hug”, in which Google offered investment to mobile developers it considered at risk of trying to leave the Google app store....

HomeGuidesAvatar: Frontiers of Pandora How to find Nor in Avatar: Frontiers Of PandoraHere’s how to find Nor and investigate clues in Avatar: Frontiers Of Pandora Here’s how to find Nor and investigate clues in Avatar: Frontiers Of Pandora Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Ubisoft Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Ubisoft Wondering how to find Nor in Avatar: Frontiers Of Pandora?Early on in the Becoming quest, your fellow clan member Nor will go missing from the Resistance HQ....